Google's Marissa Mayer on The Future of Search — Written by Nitin Karandikar; all photos by Jeremiah Owyang — The highlight of the Searchnomics 2007 conference today was a keynote, at the very end, by Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience at Google.

Welcome to Feedster, Version 2.0! — We've just completed a site redesign here at Feedster that includes a few feature changes: — To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it's quite apparent that we decided to keep only the name from the old design.

Often-Asked iPhone Questions — With its new iPhone, Apple pulled off two masterful feats: creating the machine and creating the buzz around it. — That machine, and that buzz, have inspired a lot of questions. Just how much of a phone, an iPod and an Internet machine is this thing?

ZOHO OPTIMIZES OFFICE SUITE FOR IPHONE — Zoho, the suite of Web-based productivity tools that's often considered the most formidable challenger to Google Apps' domination in the field, has entered the iPhone app blitzkrieg. It just announced iZoho, a version of its software that's …

Start-Ups Make Inroads With Google's Work Force — As Google Inc. exploded into a company of more than 12,000 employees, attracting a million resumes a year, the Internet giant rarely lost staff to start-ups or had prospective workers turn down job offers. Now, though, Google's magnetic pull …

Branding matters — even when searching — University Park, Pa. — Web searchers who evaluated identical search-engine results overwhelmingly favored Yahoo! and Google, providing evidence that branding matters as much on the Internet as off, according to a Penn State study.

Launch of GNU GPLv3 — On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebration as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment, in revision of the world's most popular free software license.

Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results — Google and other search companies have made major, continual advances under the hood in recent years, improving the way they gather information. But less progress has been made in the way these search results are presented to users.